Quote Originally Posted by icedtea View Post
I dont have a capture card (I do but its so old there arent any drivers for W7 x64), but since I do have a PCI sound card, an X-Fi Platinum, I put it in to see if there were any problems. Well, when I put the X-Fi in the lower PCI slot I too ran into problems, the driver couldnt find the sound card! Also noticed that the onboard sound, Realtek, was missing from the system when I put the X-Fi in that slot.

Could it be that there is some kind of conflict problem with this PCI slot? When I put the X-Fi in the upper PCI slot (the one closer to the CPU) the X-Fi was recognized by the driver and I could install it without a problem so it seems like its only with the lower slot. I also tried disabling the onboard sound to see if it would help, but it didnt do anything.
I've had my X-Fi in the lower PCIe slot all along. One thing about the PCIe X-Fi cards; Creative has a downloadable patch on their site for this, but they aren't auto-detected on a lot of system boards. Creative seemed to hint this was a Windows 7 thing; I think it is probably something on their end. Once the patch is run though, installing the drivers picks up the card. I had this happen on my previous Gigabyte board.

Maybe I'll try putting the X-Fi in the middle slot and the Hauppauge in the bottom though, just in case.